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Date: 30-Oct-2007 From: Els Verheugd <els.verheugduva.nl>Subject: General Linguistics: PhD Candidates, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsE-mail this message to a friend

University or Organization: University of Amsterdam
Department: ACLC, Faculty of Humanities
Web Address: http://www.hum.uva.nl/aclc

Job Rank: PhD Candidate

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; General Linguistics

Description:

PhD Positions at the ACLC

Research Direction: The Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication focuses on the description and explanations for variation in languages and language use. Despite their enormous variety, languages show a remarkable degree of similarity, which can be described in terms of a set of language universals. A key feature of the ACLC approach is that these universals are studied from the widest possible variety of perspectives, both descriptive and theoretical, in order to ensure that the findings are not accidental, but are truly representative of the basic parameters that govern the organization of natural languages. The ACLC includes both functional and formal approaches to language description and encourages dialogue between these approaches. Studies cover all aspects of speech and languages: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics - in a search for the Language Blueprint. Language typology, including that of creole and signed languages, plays an important part in the ACLC programme. Language variation in terms of time, space and context is also a specialisation. The study of variation in the different types of language user - from the child learning her first language to the adult second language learner including also different types of language pathology - is a clear focus.

Types of Application: You can apply for one of the 2 selected PhD projects to be filled per September 1st 2008, by submitting your own proposal by December 3rd 2007. How to submit your own proposal is described in the document on the ACLC website (www.hum.uva.nl/aclc under PhD Candidates / How to become a PhD candidate at the ACLC and then Submitting your own proposal). NB: You must very quickly make contact with your intended supervisor(s).

Procedure: Your project proposal will be evaluated and prioritized together with the proposals submitted by senior members of ACLC staff in December 2007. A maximum of 10 proposals will be selected. If you proposal is selected you will enter the selection procedure for candidates which will start in April/May 2008. For more information, see Guidelines for submitting a PhD proposal on the ACLC website.

Tasks: The PhD student needs to carry out the research within three years in the case of a financed position and needs to write a dissertation.

Requirements: MA in linguistics (or equivalent), obtained no longer than five years ago.

Information: The following documents give precise information about the application procedure: 1. Guidelines for submitting your own proposal. 2. The Language Blueprint. These documents can be found on the ACLC website (www.hum.uva.nl/aclc under PhD candidates). NB: Incomplete applications will be automatically rejected so please read the guidelines carefully.

Position: The internal PhD student will be appointed for a period of three years (full time) at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam under the terms of employment currently valid for the Faculty. A contract will be given in the first instance for one year, with an extension for the following two years on the basis of an evaluation of, amongst other things, a written piece of work.

Submissions: Submissions of a proposal (preferably in pdf format) should be sent before December 3rd, 2007 to aclc-fgwuva.nl Applications received after this date or those that are incomplete will not be taken into consideration.